A decade of shrewd planning by Marine Le Pen and opportune timing has put the French far right in a position of unprecedented strength heading into 2024.
Building on its historic victory in With the appropriate time and ten years of astute planning by Marine Le Pen, the French far right is in an unparalleled position as we approach 2024. In the French presidential election of the previous year, Le Pen’s party, the National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN), is expected to gain seats in the European Parliament elections scheduled for June of next year. Across Europe, far-right parties are becoming more and more popular. Across the continent, populist, anti-immigrant parties have won a string of remarkable, if previously unimaginable, victories, most recently in the Netherlands. Politicians in the mainstream worry that the far right is already planning an attack in France. Two special advisors to the former presidents of France, Francois Hollande and Nicolas
